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Mandarins Give Ground in Johannesburg
- Minnesota Review
- Duke University Press
- Number 30/31, Spring/Fall 1988 (New Series)
- p. 49
- Article
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Ferguson 49 Moira Ferguson Mandarins Give Ground in Johannesburg The same white man who made lead pencil also made the eraser. Yoruba proverb. The wizened woman in an old woolen cap says she knows nothing of riots and looting. Only co-conspirators read these empty eyes. She tucks details into tattered skirts, memorizes blank stares. "Where would I get the strength to set a tire on fire?" A mole undermining the certitude of colossus in a white suit, a sorcerer with waxed dolls coughing phlegm and blood into a pillaged holy grail. ...
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